If youโre in Korea and need to send a package, letter, or postcard, knowing Korean post office vocabulary is essential. Whether you’re an expat, student, or traveler, learning these words and phrases will help you communicate at a Korean post office smoothly.
In this post, you’ll learn:
โ๏ธ Essential Korean post office vocabulary (postal services, mail types, delivery options)
โ๏ธ Useful Korean post office expressions
โ๏ธ Common phrases for sending mail, tracking packages, and buying stamps
โ๏ธ How to ask for help at a post office in Korea
Letโs get started! ๐ฆ
๐ฎ Korean Post Office Vocabulary
๐ค Post Office-Related Terms
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ฐ์ฒด๊ตญ | u-che-guk | Post office |
| ์ฐํธ | u-pyeon | |
| ์ฐํธ๋ฒํธ | u-pyeon-beon-ho | Postal code / ZIP code |
| ์ฐํธ๋ฌผ | u-pyeon-mul | Postal item |
| ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ | bae-dal | Delivery |
| ํ๋ฐฐ | taek-bae | Courier service |
| ์ํฌ | so-po | Parcel, package |
| ๊ตญ์ ์ฐํธ | guk-je u-pyeon | International mail |
| ๊ตญ๋ด ์ฐํธ | guk-nae u-pyeon | Domestic mail |
| ์ฃผ์ | ju-so | Address |
๐ฌ Mail & Delivery Options
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ์ผ๋ฐ ์ฐํธ | il-ban u-pyeon | Regular mail |
| ๋ฑ๊ธฐ ์ฐํธ | deung-gi u-pyeon | Registered mail |
| ํน๊ธ ์ฐํธ | teuk-geup u-pyeon | Express mail |
| ํญ๊ณต ์ฐํธ | hang-gong u-pyeon | Airmail |
| ์ ๋ฐ ์ฐํธ | seon-bak u-pyeon | Surface mail |
| ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋ฑ๊ธฐ | ppa-reun deung-gi | Expedited registered mail |
| ์ฐฉ๋ถ | chak-bul | Cash on delivery |
| ๋ณดํ ์ฐํธ | bo-heom u-pyeon | Insured mail |
| ๋ฐ์ก | ban-song | Return mail |
| ์์ทจ์ธ | su-chwi-in | Recipient |
| ๋ฐ์ก์ธ | bal-song-in | Sender |
๐ฆ Sending & Receiving Packages
| Korean | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| ๋ณด๋ด๋ค | bo-nae-da | To send |
| ๋ฐ๋ค | bat-da | To receive |
| ํฌ์ฅ | po-jang | Packing |
| ๋ฌด๊ฒ | mu-ge | Weight |
| ๋ฐฐ์ก๋ฃ | bae-song-ryo | Shipping fee |
| ์ถ์ ๋ฒํธ | chu-jeok beon-ho | Tracking number |
| ๋ฐฐ์ก ์ํ | bae-song sang-tae | Delivery status |
| ๋์ฐฉ ์์ ์ผ | do-chak ye-jeong-il | Estimated arrival date |
| ์๋ช | seo-myeong | Signature |
| ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ ์๋ฃ | bae-dal wan-ryo | Delivered |
๐ฃ๏ธ Useful Korean Post Office Expressions & Phrases
๐ค Sending a Letter or Package
๐น ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. (So-po-reul bo-nae-go si-peo-yo.)
โก๏ธ I want to send a package.
๐น ์ด ์ฃผ์๋ก ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ธ์. (I ju-so-ro bo-nae ju-se-yo.)
โก๏ธ Please send it to this address.
๐น ๊ตญ์ ์ฐํธ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. (Guk-je u-pyeon-eu-ro bo-nae-go si-peo-yo.)
โก๏ธ I want to send it internationally.
๐น ๋ฐฐ์ก๋ฃ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ง์์? (Bae-song-ryo-ga eol-ma-ye-yo?)
โก๏ธ How much is the shipping fee?
๐น ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ๋ ดํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์ธ์. (Ga-jang jeo-ryeom-han bang-beop-eu-ro bo-nae ju-se-yo.)
โก๏ธ Please send it in the cheapest way.
๐น ์ผ๋ง๋ ๊ฑธ๋ ค์? (Eol-ma-na geol-ryeo-yo?)
โก๏ธ How long will it take?
๐น ์ฐํธ ๋ฒํธ๋ฅผ ์๋ ค ์ฃผ์ธ์. (U-pyeon beon-ho-reul al-lyeo ju-se-yo.)
โก๏ธ Please tell me the postal code.
๐ฅ Receiving & Tracking Mail
๐น ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฌ ์์ด์. (So-po-reul bat-eu-reo wa-sseo-yo.)
โก๏ธ I came to pick up a package.
๐น ์ด ์ํฌ๊ฐ ๋์ฐฉํ๋์? (I so-po-ga do-chak-haet-na-yo?)
โก๏ธ Has this package arrived?
๐น ์ถ์ ๋ฒํธ๋ฅผ ํ์ธํ ์ ์๋์? (Chu-jeok beon-ho-reul hwa-gin-hal su it-na-yo?)
โก๏ธ Can I check the tracking number?
๐น ๋ฐฐ๋ฌ์ด ์ง์ฐ๋๊ณ ์์ด์. (Bae-dal-i ji-yeon-doe-go it-seo-yo.)
โก๏ธ The delivery is delayed.
๐น ๋ฐ์ก๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ๋ญ์์? (Ban-song-doen i-yu-ga mwo-ye-yo?)
โก๏ธ What is the reason for the return?
๐ Buying Stamps & Other Services
๐น ์ฐํ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. (U-pyo-reul sa-go si-peo-yo.)
โก๏ธ I want to buy stamps.
๐น ํธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฐํ๊ฐ ๋ช ์ฅ ํ์ํด์? (Pyeon-ji-reul bo-nae-ryeo-myeon u-pyo-ga myeot-jang pi-ryo-hae-yo?)
โก๏ธ How many stamps do I need to send a letter?
๐น ์ฝ์๋ ํ๋งคํ๋์? (Yeop-seo-do pan-mae-ha-na-yo?)
โก๏ธ Do you also sell postcards?
๐น ์ฐ์ฒด๊ตญ์์ ์ํ ์
๋ฌด๋ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋์? (U-che-guk-e-seo eun-haeng eop-mu-do bol su it-na-yo?)
โก๏ธ Can I also do banking at the post office?
๐น ์์์ฆ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์๊น์? (Yeong-su-jeung-eul bat-eul su is-seul-kka-yo?)
โก๏ธ Can I get a receipt?
๐ฏ Practice Time!
Test your knowledge by answering these questions in the comments:
1๏ธโฃ How do you say “post office” in Korean? ๐ค
2๏ธโฃ Whatโs the Korean word for “package”? ๐ฆ
3๏ธโฃ How do you say “I want to send this letter” in Korean? ๐
Comment your answers below! ๐
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